Virginia General Assembly

It was 1965 and Henry Marsh sat incredulous as Virginia's former attorney general told a U.S. Senate hearing that the commonwealth didn't discriminate against black voters. What would eventually be known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was up for debate, and Virginia most certainly didn't want to lumped in with other Southern states. Marsh, then a 31-year-old lawyer, held a copy of a recent federal court ruling holding Virginia in violation of voting rights. At the lunch break, Marsh approached a young Sen. Ted Kennedy and handed him a copy. "After lunch, he interrogated Mr. Gray," Marsh said last week, referring to former Virginia Attorney General Frederick...

Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas, Virginia, apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license. With a badge on his chest and a gun on his hip, Youlen gave the driver a stern warning to stay...

RICHMOND – The Virginia House shot down an effort Tuesday to keep secret the drugs used in lethal injections, as well as the names of the companies that make or mix them.The House killed Senate Bill 1393 on a bipartisan vote, 42-56. Sponsored by Senate...

A Virginia lawmaker who was just re-elected despite being jailed for a sex scandal with a teenager has been indicted on four new felony charges.
The forgery and perjury indictment of Del. Joseph D. Morrissey was returned the day before that election...

Politicians and others from around the state are reacting to the conviction of Bob and Maureen McDonnell.
Here are some of them (this story will be updated throughout the day):
Gov. Terry McAuliffe
“I am deeply saddened by the events of the trial...

In one case, a key step across the line came when a powerful state legislator from Newport News bumped into a state Senate staffer by a Capitol Square elevator; in the other, it came when a newly elected governor's wife yearned for a designer dress for an...